Theme:
We Are Blessed and Blessings Called to Serve- Embrace the Imperfections, Chaos, and Holy Mess in Your life and in Our World

Welcome
and Greeting

Presider 1: Welcome
to Mary Mother of Jesus, an inclusive Catholic Community where are all are
welcome to share Eucharist. We use inclusive language in our scripture readings
and prayers. You will be invited to gather around the Table to pray the Eucharistic Prayer

We warmly welcome our
newcomers to our liturgy and invite you to introduce yourself at the
announcement time after Communion

All are invited to
join us for supper after liturgy.

From left to right: Bridget Mary Meehan and Patricia MacMillan co-preside at liturgy

Presider 2:In chaotic times, your Spirit moves
through us as, we discern anew, Jesus’ call to lovingly serve our sisters and
brothers. Like Job, we are called to integrity of faith in the midst of
suffering and evil for we believe that everything is held together by love. Today we celebrate our baptismal call of service.
Like Jesus and his disciples, we are called to live the Gospel of love today as
blessings in our world.

Opening Song: #628 We Are Called

Opening Prayer:

ALL: We dream of a world without sexual violence, without white
supremacy, without misogyny, and, without hate. We commit ourselves to imagine,
repair and transform our Church and world. We are blessings and blessed in our
service.

Rite of Forgiveness and
Reconciliation

Presider 1: Let us pause now to pray with
one another for forgiveness. Let us extend hands and pray silently for healing
and reconciliation in our lives and in our world.

blessed are you who are raging.
blessed are you who are mourning.
blessed are you who feel numb.
blessed are you who feel sick. and tired. and sick and tired.
blessed are you who refuse to turn away.
blessed are you who need to turn away.
blessed are you who keep breathing deep.
blessed are you who are tending to your own needs.
blessed are you who are tending to the needs of another.
blessed are you who have been calling.
blessed are you who have been organizing.
blessed are you who have been testifying.
blessed are you who have been hearing.
blessed are you who have been resisting.
blessed are you who feel broken open beyond repair.
blessed are you who are raw beyond words.
blessed are you who are working hotlines and crisis care centers and bearing
witness to the forces of violence and trauma unleashed and unloosed.
blessed are you who are marching.
blessed are you who are weeping.
blessed are you who preach and know that divinity resides in despised, abused,
violated flesh.
blessed are you who know deep in your bones that you are good. and beautiful.
and beloved. and sacred. and worthy. and believed. and held. and capable of
healing beyond your wildest imagination.
blessed are you who remind others they are good. and beautiful. and beloved.
and sacred. and worthy. and believed. an d held. and capable of healing beyond
their wildest imagination.
blessed are we when we dare to dream of a world without sexual violence,
without white supremacy, without misogyny, without police brutality, without
anti-trans and anti-queer violence.
blessed are we when we stay tender.
blessed are we when we stay fierce.
blessed are we when we dare to imagine repair, and transformation.
blessed are we when we labor together to make it so.
- Pastor Anna Blaedel

Homily Sharing:

We invite open, respectful, brief sharing in
response to the readings and homily starter now.

Share how you/and/or our Community are blessed and blessing in service in our Church and World

Statement
of Faith

We believe in the Holy One, a divine mysterybeyond all definition and rational understanding,in whose infinite
love all creation exists and evolves.

We believe in Jesus, messenger of the Divine Presence,bringer of healing, heart of Divine compassion,bright star in the firmament of the Holy One'sprophets, mystics, and saints.We believe that we are called to follow Jesusas a reflection of divine compassion and healinga source of wisdom and truth,and an instrument of peace and healing in the world.We believe in the Spirit of the Holy One,the life that is our innermost life,the breath moving in our being,the depth living in each of us.We believe that the Divine kin-domis here and now,stretched out all around us for thosewith eyes to see it, hearts to receive it,and hands to make it happen.

General
Intercessions:

Presider 1: As we prepare for the sacred meal, we pray for the
needs of the people of God in our community and around the world.

Our response is: Holy
One, you hear our prayers.

Please share your
spontaneous prayers.

Presider 2: We give thanks for all whom we
held in the circle of grace and will continue to pray for and use our talents
to serve our sisters and brothers with joyful hearts in the coming weeks. Amen.

PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS

(Lifting
up the Bread and Wine)

Presider1:
Blessed are you, God of all life, through your goodness we have bread, wine,
all creation, and our own lives to offer.

Presider 2
: Through this sacred meal may we become your new creation as we respond to
your call to use our gifts in loving service to our sisters and brothers.

ALL: Blessed be God forever.
(All are welcome to join us around the table)

Liturgy of the EucharistPresider 1: God is with you.

ALL: And also with you.

Presider 2: Lift up your hearts.

ALL: We lift them up to God.

All: :O
God of open tables, we come with loving hearts to the altar of the world to generously
serve our sisters and brothers in need. We give thanks for the rich diversity
of talents we have in this community. We rejoice in this circle of grace as we
remember the angels and saints and all who have gone before us. Joined with all
creation, we lift up our hearts and sing:

We are holy, holy, holy by Karen Drucker

Voice 1:We thank you
for Jesus, our brother, who called us to turn away from the idols of power and
domination to transform oppression. He lifted up the vulnerable, and revealed
your abundant tenderness toward those who are sick and suffering, lonely and
grieving, marginalized and excluded.

Voice 2: We celebrate our call
to reflect the One Who Embraces All with love in our relationships and actions
each day.

(Extend hands in blessing toward bread and wine for
Invocation of the Holy Spirit)

All: Now, as we share the bread of life and lift the cup of
joy, we pray come Holy Spirit deepen your Presence within us and in these gifts
of bread and wine.

All: On the night
before he died, Jesus gathered for the Seder supper with the people closest to
him. Like the least of household servants, he washed their feet, so that they
would re-member him.

Presider
1:(lifts bread as community prays the following:)

All:When he returned to his place at the table, he lifted the
Passover bread, spoke the blessing, broke the bread and offered it to them
saying:

Take
and eat of the Bread of Life

Given
to strengthen you

Whenever
you remember me like this

I am
among you. (pause)

Presider
2(lifts the cup as community prays the following: )

All:Jesus then raised a cup of
blessing, spoke the grace saying:

Take
and drink of the covenant

Made
new again through mylifein you.

Whenever
you remember me like this,

I am
among you. (pause)

All: Let us share
this bread and cup,

and welcome
everyone to the Banquet as we live the gospel of loving service to our sisters
and brothers especially those who are suffering from any form of domination or
oppression.

Voice 3: We are called to do everything Jesus did, to be the
living presence of a love that does justice, of a compassion that heals and
liberates, of a joy that generates laughter, of a light that illumines right
choices and confronts the darkness of every injustice and inequity.

All: So, we trust
you to continue to share with us your own spirit, the Spirit that filled Jesus,
for it is through his life and teaching, his loving and healing all honor and
glory is yours, O Holy One, forever and ever. All sing: Amen.

Presider
1: Let us pray as Jesus taught us:

All: Sing -Prayer of Jesus:-Our Father and
Mother

Sign of Peace: Let us hold
hands sing “Peace is flowing like a River” as we pray for peace and justice to
spread through our world.

Prayer for the Breaking of
Bread

Presider 2:Please join in the prayer for the breaking of the bread:

(Presiders
break the bread) All:O God of Courage,You
call us to live the Gospel of peace and justice.We will live justly. O God of Compassion, You
call us to be Your presence in the world.We will love tenderly.
O God of Truth, You call us to speak truth to power.We will walk with integrity in your presence.
(Presiders hold up bread and wine)

Presider
1: "This is the bread of life and the cup of blessing. Through it we are
nourished and we nourish each other. All are welcome to the Feast.

All: What we have heard with our ears, we will live with our
lives; as we share communion, we will become communion, both Love’s nourishment
and Love’s challenge.

Meditation Song: Mindy Lou Simmons

Prayers of Gratitude, Introductions and
Announcements

Blessing

Presider 2:Let us raise our hands in blessing pray together:

All:
May we, like Job, live lives of integrity and faith through tribulations and
chaotic times. May we walk with an awareness of our call to encourage one
another as companions on the journey, knowing that we are the “hands and feet
“of Jesus, blessed andblessings each
day. All: Amen.

Closing Song: #581- Companions on the Journey vs, 1,2,4

(This liturgy was adapted
from a liturgy written by Bridget Mary Meehan and Mary Theresa Streck)

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and folks from Dorothy Day CW and other activists, including former Colonel Ann Wright, a former diplomat of many years who spoke to us and the people who joined us. Lots of media. We then walked on the road with a police escort to the State Department to take a petition regarding Khashoggi's murder. Along the way we called out various chants.

Medea had to do lots of talking to get someone to take the petition. After an hour's wait, someone finally showed up. We then headed to the Saudi Embassy where a security contingent stood in front, above the steps. Medea and a couple of us wanted to sit down and she did as we were tired. Immediately a security guard put one handcuff on her. After she told him it wasn't

her intention to be arrested, he removed it. That's the first time I had ever seen that happen. After Medea spoke, she invited me to lead a prayer in memory of Jamal Khashoggi. Afterwards we sang " Peace, Salem, Shalom," as our day of witnessing ended. We gathered at the excellent restaurant across the street for a delicious meal, then made our way to the CODEPINK house to rest, share our stories of the day and have a light supper. Some of the women

accompanied to the nearby Metro where I caught the MARC train back to Baltimore.